Slat and wiee fence



(No Model.)

W. CARTER.

\ MACHINE FOR MAKING SLAT AND WIRE PBNGE. No. 413,223. Patented 0ct.-22,1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM CARTER, OF MARTINSVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO I DANIELM. TURNER, OF SAME PLACE.

MAC HINE FOR MAKING SLAT-AND WlRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,223, dated October22, 1889.

Application filed June 27,1888. Serial No. 278,329. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,WILLIAM CARTER, a citi zen of the United States,residing at Martinsville, in the county of Clinton and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for MakingSlatand-Wire Fence; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to machines or devices for making picket fence ofthe kind usually known as slat-and-wire fence 5 and the object of theinvention is to provide a device for doing this work upon the groundwhere the fence is to stand, which shall possess characteristics ofsimplicity and eifectiveness, both in the shuttle or weaving device andin the tension device, as will more fully appear from the followingdetailed description, and the novelty contained in the machine will bepointed out in the claim.

Theaccompanyingdrawings illustrate what I consider the best means forcarrying my invention into practice.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a machine made according to myinvention, in connection with a sufficient portion of a fence toindicate its use. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the shuttle or weavingdevice detached. Fig. 3 is a front view of the tension device. Fig. 4.is a detail view of the shuttle or carrier and its bifurcatedscrew-bolt.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures where they occur.

A is a fence-post having the pairs of wires B attached to it, thusforming the starting post or point of the fence. I

A is an intermediate post, to which the wires are to be attached whenthe fence is carried past it.

O G are the pickets, which, in connection with the wires, form thepanels of the fence.

D represents the coupling-bar, to which the shuttles or carriers E areswung. Any desired number of such shuttles or carriers are employed, andthey are secured to the bar in such a manner as to be movable orchangeable thereupon. For this purpose the bar is provided with a seriesof holes (1, into any one of which a shuttle may be fastened. Eachshuttle is pivoted or swung to a stem or bolt, as shown at F, whichpasses through the bar D, and is provided with a nut or other suitableattaching or fastening means which is readily removable, so as to affordeasy means for removing and shifting and fastening the shuttle orshuttles at any vertical point or points, according to the number ofwire rails intended to be used, or the relative distances from eachother and from the tops or bottoms of the pickets.

By having the shuttle-carrying bolts vertically adjustable I am enabled,as will be seen, to shift their vertical position relative to each otherwith ease and rapidity, and by simply taking off the rear nut I canreadily remove any one of them as may be desired when one of the pairsof wires is to be omitted.

Each shuttle or carrier is made of one piece of material in the form ofa fork and bent around pins on bifurcated bolts F. From this point ofattachment the arms of the shuttles extend on an outward curve, as shownat e, and are bent back upon themselves, as shown at e, and are thenlooped, as shown at 6 in such a manner as to present the closed end ofthe loop to the strain or pressure of the wires, which will always betoward each other as they are being woven. The outward curve of the armsgives them power to resist the inward pull or strain of the wires, andby being bent upon themselves, as described, the arms are made topresent the closed ends of the loops to the inward pull of the wires.

As will be readily understood from the drawings, the pairs of wirescarried by each shuttle are caused to cross upon themselves at eachupward or downward movement of the bar D. Such movements of the bar0perate to throw the shuttles first with one arm against it and thenwith the other, as will be seen, thus crossing the wires, and a movementeither up or down being made after the insertion of each picket betweenthe wires the wire is lapped upon each picket, as shown in the drawings.The wires are held with the proper tension by means of the tensiondevice illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. This tension device consists of abar or upright G, equipped with hooks g, bymeans of which it is appliedto the intermediate posts A, as shown in the drawings, and is alsoprovided with a series of openings g, through which bolts H arepassed,which carry upon them the clamps or tension-pieces I. The bolts Hare threaded and provided with nuts or other holding means, which can betightened upon the tension-pieces I, to give them the proper grip ortension upon the wires.

In the faces of the tension-pieces, which come against the face of thepost or bar Gr, are formed two grooves i 2', to receive the wires B andhold them at a suitable distance apart. The openings g in the post orbar Gr correspond in height with the openings in the shuttle-bar, andthe grooves z i will approximately correspond with the loops 8 e on theshuttles, so that the tension-pieces and the shuttles can be shifted inunison. WVith this construction of tension device it becomes unnecessaryto spool the wire, as is usually done in machines of this sort. Thetension device is also much simpler in construction and more limited insize and number of parts, since it is in effect only a movableattachment for each. of the intermediate and the finishing post as thefence is being made.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 15-

The combination, with a movable post D and a nut-bolt bifurcated at oneend, of the bibranched wire-carrier E, bent as shown at e e 6 andpivoted in the'middle on a crosspin of the bolt, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM CARTER.

Vitnesses:

WILLIAM TURNER, MICHAEL TURNER.

